I haven't written a diary entry in a long time because I am
working on some stuff that I am resisting to not tell you
yet : ). But I have been hacking like crazy.

I have not been to school in 15+ days, thats not good.

gedit is doing fine we haven't gotten a real bug report
since the release. I am thinking of gnome-printifying pan (
the
newsreader ) and gnome-db. Pan I will most likely do it this
week. gnome-db I am not to sure, I need that rodrigo does
some work so that I don't have to deal with anyting other
than the printing code.

I am meeting federico today at Nuclecu. Cool ! I have
not
seen him in a long time.

Miguel is comming to Mexico and he will give a talk on
the
World Trade Center. I am looking forward to talk to him. He
is so busy that is hard to get his attention while he is
IRC'ing or hacking.

I got IP_MASQ working very fast on my desktop thanks to the
good HOWTO available. have been trying to get the
ethernet PCMCIA card for my toshiba to work without much
luck. According to the Howto, Toshiba released incorrect
information on ther chipset and this driver is buggy because
of that. I sent a mail to toshiba saying "I want to buy a
Laptop and I heard that the PCMCIA ... ( you can figure the
rest )". The PCMCIA author must be very pissed towards
toshiba
since he has a note in the HOWTO stating "I do not recommend
buying toshiba laptops ...", well I am too. Just wait a
couple of years and they will be begging him to apply some
patches to that same drivers.

gedit 0.7.0

gedit 0.7.0 should be out today or tomorow. A lot of code
got overhauled and should be more stable. I am very
satisfied with the work and the prining is nice. Don't
forget to download your copy
here tomorow.

gnome-print and GNOME Entry level too high

Need to work on gnome-print. I now have a good idea on what
to
work on. More on this latter. I have not been hacking for
long and I think the entry level to hack on gnome has to
get lowered, its hard to find small tasks you can use to
learn more and become a better hacker.

BARRAPUNTO.COM

This site is cool visit
here is the spanish
version of slashdot. Visit the gnome link.

I went to the weding of of Laura and Nacho in Cuernavaca
yesterday ( Saturday ). Both of them are active skydivers
and they are great people. They danced infront of everyone
that dance that Deniro does in scent of a woman infront of
everyone and all the party was amazed. And all of my
skydivers friends where there. I had not relized that I have
not jumped in 3 months, I had such a
good time with all of them. I need to go skydiving soon !

gedit

Jason and myself have been putting a lot of work towards
improving gedit, a big amount of the code has been rewritten
and gedit appears to be more stable. We wanted to ship
version 0.7.0 this week, but there are many things we needed
to do before that. Hopefully next week we will be able to do
so. The task of fixing gedit has been much greater than what
I was expecting. The original author, Alex Roberts, has
shown no interest on helping us. He does not seem to care
much about gedit.HELP NEEDED!!gedit is in desperate
need of a new logo. If you can help us or know someone who
can, please mail me.

Broke with gf

I broke with Cristina. I am feeling blue ..... 1yr and 10
months is a lot of time.

I am hacking for the weekend ! Man, did I missed
hacking ! I think I might do the same trick for the
following week since there is a lot of school work pending..

gedit and some bug cleaning power ...

Jason Leach and
myself
have been cleaning the bug reports database at
bugs.gnome.org for gedit. We are also fixing some of
the
outstanging bugs. I have rewriten the printing code using
gnome-print functions. There where close to 260 reports when
we started but there are only 70 still open. The code for
gedit is not very beautifull but it is very fixable and I am
sure gedit will be in a more stable state in the near
future.

I started a list with amazon.com with comments on my recent
purchases
here . There are not many comments for now and they are
in spanish. I will rewrite them in English,
since most of my friends here in Mexico, that would be
intrested, can read English.
I also sent feedback@amazon.com
and Jeff Bezos an
email ( please note is NOT e-mail, see below ... )
telling them that because of the patent stupidity I will
not purchase from them anymore. I am just bluffing, since I
love amazon and I can't help it.

Donald E. Knuth

I have not heard anything about this guy, but I read most
of his webpage. I enjoyed the reading, if you haven't read
about him visit his here
. He seems like THE Computer Science guru, he created
TeX and published a set of books called "The art of
computer programming", they seem to be like the bible of
Computer Science. I also learn that using the word "e-mail"
will tend to be replaced in the future. Form his webpage :

"A note on email versus e-mail
Newly coined nonce words are often spelled with a hyphen,
but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely
used. For example, people used to write ``non-zero'' and
``soft-ware'' instead of ``nonzero'' and ``software''; the
same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words. Thus
it's high time for everybody to stop using the archaic
spelling ``e-mail''. Think of how many keystrokes you will
save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form ``email''
has been well established in England for several years, so
I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in
this regard. (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word
in France much longer than in England --- but for an
entirely different reason.)"

School

Schools sucks. I do not want to go to school anymore. But
what the heck, I am in 8th semester with only 1 1/2
semesters to go. I
wish I could spend the time I WASTE in school doing some
hacking
activity. My mayor is in Electronic Engineer but
I don't want to deal with Electronics or
Circuits for the following 10
years. It was a nice hobby but not my mission in life !

Big party Saturday
I had a big party saturday in Cristina's ( my girlfriend )
town called Teotihucan. I had a great time till I wanted to
go to sleep and everyone wanted to continue parting. I
didn't had a car, which sucked and I had to stay at
Cristina's house to sleep, since is like a 1 hr. drive from
where I live and it was very late. Cristina really
understands my hacking needs which is great ( more on her
later ) So, the important thing is that :

I will disconnect from open source for a week
I am very late on school work and have not done
ANYTHING
for the past month, I think I have attended close to 40% of
my classes. Big problems are knocking on
my doorstep if I don't do school work so I asked Tuba ( more
on him later ) to telnet tomorrow to my PC and change the
passwords
so that I can't use Linux for a week and to not
give them to me, no matter what I tell him. I hope that
I get a
lot of school work done. I am sick of that guilty feeling.

Gnome-print 0.15 released
After sending several patches to miguel he finally liked my
code and committed it to the CVS. He also made a new
gnome-print release (0.15) so that we can now print
isoLatinEncoding chars. Cool !

ghex
I finished a basic version for ghex printing module today
and sent it to jaka, he told me it should be in the CVS by
tomorrow. It is important for me to get more familiar with
gnome-print so thats why I wanted to do it. Also, is very
handy
to print the hex dump when analyzing output that gets
generated from the gnome-print drivers.
I used to make a screen shoot of ghex and then print that
image !

gnome-print isoLatin characters
I sent the patch to miguel for the 5th time, he just keeps
sending it back to me with modifications to make the code
look "pretty". I think he is exagerating a bit this time but
what can I do, he is the boss !

gnome-print-dialog
I am working to make the print-dialog display printers that
get loaded from the .gnome/printer-profiles directory
instead of only getting the Generic Postcript driver. Right
now is crashing and can't even use the Generic Postcript

gnome-print-pdf
Not a lot of work has been done for this driver as I have
not continue reading the pdf standard ver. 1.3. The thing
is 500+ pages, but I am enjoying reading it since it's so
well designed / written.

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